QuBits, a System for Interactive Sonic Virtual Reality

This article describes the QuBits system, a virtual reality environment offering an expanded medium for musical experience with space and visuals. The user and the computer jointly shape many of the events. Sound engines were designed to explore an aesthetic of algorithmically generated sonic structures, sound mass, interactive evolution, and spatial sound. Real-time challenges are discussed. A network of software is diagramed, solving initial issues with latency. Finally, the principles and methods utilized in the current project are evaluated with implications for future iterations.